One of my buddies who is still in deployed about a month ago and I put together a little care package for him. I also took a close up picture of my junk, printed it and placed it on top so if it doesn't get removed in transit that will be the first thing he sees.

Anyway I was wondering if any of you who are deployed or deploying soon need anything and this thread can be used to send you guys ****. Some of my family volunteers once a week to put together care packages but I know all that **** gets sent to Bagram or other big *** FOBs where they don't need it so I'd rather send to specific guys. I don't know if you'd want to post the address or not but I guess you can PM me and anyone else who posts in this thread on what you want and your address and I'll do my best to get a package together. I probably won't send you a picture of my junk though so that's either good or bad news for you.

Its been a while since I photographed my junk for buddies. I found a camera I had on deployment in 05 the other week, had it developed and told my wife, "I'm not sure what's on this so be ready."
Sure enough, several of my Marines had photographed their junk for me.

Seriously though, ScubaSteve, me and my guys will be on our way at some point and Ill shoot you a PM with our APO.

Yall can check into orgs that do care packages too and see if they are something you want to get involved in, Ive done stuff for or with the PinUp Angels, Bomber Girls LRC, Soldiers Angels and a number of other groups so hopefully yall will find one you like as well.

My wife would send me a 16g flash drive with new movies/shows and naked pics on it. I would download those and send it back. She would then load it up and send me more. It worked really well with 2 flash drives always moving.

If you send a package, make sure you fill the box so it doesnt break open and spill out!

Well I leave in a couple days and magazines are always a plus. Of course all the FAT kid snacks always come in handy when you get stuck in a S*** hole place with nothing but our nations finest 3 course meals AKA MRE'S. Baby wipes are money out there, really anything is fine we appreciate any and all packages letters magz its more for support I think. If anyone is Interested I can pm my add or post it here other way thanks for all you're support.

I always liked hot sauce, cause i put that **** on everything- BBQ was nice to mix it up with the MRE's. I was the king of making stuff with the MRE's...

Costco sized Beef jerky

Mags (maxim, car and driver, guns and ammo)

I always had my parents send **** loads of ramen noodles and tuna in the packets, not the cans. Oh and broth packets.

I loved aa and aaa batteries- in the beginning of my service we just had CD players and those things ate batteries like they were going out of style... now with most things powered by proprietary batteries it probably isn't as big of a deal.

Skittles, licorice, hard candies - i was in north eastern Africa a lot, so no chocolate

@Ricky Ray
Thanks for everything we are actually getting ready to leave all gear is weighed in so we are just on stand by. As soon as i get there i will let you know. And yes i will share with all my marines.

Somebody tell a civilian how to get this done... I was just about to throw away two years worth of MAXIM I have laying around. I'd be happy to throw in some beef jerky, pop tarts and baby wipes.

Shipping out the 2 packages today was my first time also. Easiest way I can figure go to the post office and get their large flat rate boxes, the advantage of these is that it doesn't matter how much it weighs, it ships for about $15 bucks. Once you have it packed go to USPS.com and register for an account if you don't have one. The advantage of the USPS account is that when shipping it will require custom's forms and declarations. Having the USPS account it will fill all that info in and print it out for you and all you have to do it just take it to the post office afterwards. No need to fill out any forms in triplicate or however many copies they require.

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I'm in Kandahar so don't need any of the food stuff, it seems as though we get plenty of junk food. Unfortunately I'm in a trans unit and they still believe in giving us M-16 A2's that are large and suck, not even rails. They also give us ****ty USGI magazines that also suck. If anyone has magazines or stuff to convert an A2 to a rail type system or collapsible stock that would be awesome!